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Professor Pierre Michetti
Pierre Michetti is Professor of Medicine, Chief of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland. He graduated from Lausanne University Medical School and studied basic mucosal immunology at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research, Epalinges and at Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston. He returned then to Switzerland for his gastroenterology training and then went back to Boston, appointed as Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and Attending Physician and at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
Prof Michetti is a member of numerous scientific organisations, including the European Crohn’s and Colitis Organisation, where he chairs the Educational Committee, the Society for Mucosal Immunology, the European Helicobacter Study Group and the Council of the United European Gastroenterology Federation. He is president of the congress of the Swiss Gastroenterology Association.
Prof Michetti’s research is focused on clinical, quality of care and basic research in inflammatory bowel disease and on the development of vaccination against Helicobacter pylori. In this field he has first identified a protective antigen of H. pylori, extensively characterized the mechanisms of protection in experimental models and conducted multiple phase I and phase II clinical trials with vaccine candidates.
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Professor Olof Nyrén
Olof Nyrén is professor in Clinical Epidemiology at the Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karoliska Institute, Sweden. He is also an adjunct professor at the Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA and act as a consultant for the Swedish Institute for Infectios Disease Control. Professor Nyrén has published >250 papers and 40 reviews/book chapters. He has extensive knowledge and experience in cancer epidemiology and H. pylori infections in relation to gastric cancer. |
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Professor Jay Solnick
Jay Solnick is professor in Medicine and Medical Microbiology & Immunology at UC Davis, CA, USA. He holds a PhD from Univeristy of North Carolina and a MD from Columbia University. Professor Solnick was a Fellow in Infectious Diseases at Stanford University and has performed research at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. He has extensive experience in the H. pylori field with close to 50 papers published. He has worked on both immunology as well as microbiology of H. pylori in several animal species including primates. |
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